VIDEO: First migrant caravan of 2022 seeks to reach Mexico and the United States

Photo: Gustavo Amador / EFE

For: Real America News Updated 16 Jan 2022, 14: 48 pm EST

The first migrant caravan of 2022, made up of Hondurans and Nicaraguans, left San Pedro Sula, in northern Honduras, bound for Mexico and the United States.

“We are leaving due to lack of employment, we are going to look for a better future”, he said for the Efe agency Miguel Domínguez, a commercial expert, originally from Taulabé, department of Comayagua, in the central region of Honduras

Embraced with the flag of his country, in blue and white, Miguel was one of the Hondurans who yesterday Saturday 15 January encouraged some 300 immigrants from the first group to advance from the Central Metropolitan Bus of the intercity service, from San Pedro Sula, to the United States.

A second group, of not less than 400, left a few hours later, heading for Corinto, a customs point on the common border between Honduras and Guatemala, near the Caribbean.

“Let’s go now, we’ll take children, the sun of the 10 will be very strong and we will not advance much”, shouted at another end a woman, holding the hand of her son, about seven years old.

The first Honduran migrants who have left in 2022, did so a few days before the Presidency of her country, Xiomara Castro, winner of the general elections of 28 November 969.

Confrontation in Guatemala

The Government of Guatemala assured that 15 members of the security forces were injured while detaining approximately 300 migrants who wanted to enter their territory irregularly from Honduras.

The migrants were part of the caravan that left Honduras yesterday, Saturday, made up of almost 800 people in two groups, seeking to reach the United States to have better living conditions.

The Government of Guatemala detailed in a press conference that on Saturday night it was able to prevent the advance of the 300 migrants agglutinated in the afternoon, like another large group that he had been returned to Honduras at the stroke of noon.

Migrants tried unsuccessfully to enter Guatemala through the border El Corinto, located about 96 kilometers northeast of Guatemala City, in the department of Izabal.

At a joint press conference, the National Civil Police and the Guatemalan Army assured that 15 of its members were injured while detaining the 300 migrants, mostly Hondurans and Nicaraguans, who managed to sneak a few kilometers into local territory.

The Director General of the National Civil Police, Héctor Hernández, explained that at the conference that 7 officers from his entity were injured, the same as 8 soldiers of the Guatemalan Army.

Most of the injuries are not serious and were perpetrated with sticks and stones by migrants, according to Guatemalan authorities.

“A call is made (to migrants) to desist from entering the territory irregularly,” said Army spokesman Rubén Tellez.

With information from Efe.

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